Ever Fall in Love With Someone You’ve Never Met?

I am just busting at the seems right now!  Feeling overwhelmed by the goodness and GRACE that has made it’s way to me…so undeserving.

I have to tell you…I am in love.  So in love.

I fell in love even before we ever met.  No…not internet dating.  Not through Facebook, e-mail, or some other form of connecting.

But through a God work.  A work so big, I can’t even wrap my arms around it.

We met last weekend.  Her dark brown curls staring at me….as if I have seen them somewhere before.  In a dream?

Those tiny fingers wrapping around my one large, well-worked wrinkling finger.

And it’s one thing to meet and grow to love another human being, slowly, over time.  It’s quite another to fall in love, instantly, without ever talking or meeting previously.

Adoptive parents often get it.  They see their children in a picture and fall in love at first sight.  “That’s my child”…they will say.  No logic can explain it.

It doesn’t make sense.  It’s big.  Supernatural.  There is no reasonable way to explain it.  It has to be God!

And there she is.  Her sweet scent filling a crib we just bought.  I will share stories of how she got here for respite….but for now I just want to pause…pointing solely to the goodness of God.

Do you know how BIG our God is?  Do you know how He can sweep by and heal, touch, redeem, restore, take everything broken and make it whole with His perfect love?

I think about God’s love and how we may have never even necessarily walked with Him…..talked to Him before.  But we found…He found us solely by Grace.  By grace He reached out and there was a connection we can’t explain.

He became real.  He became everything.  Feeling love from a God we may never have even tangibly seen.  There is just no way to explain it.

So, why can’t we love others like that?

Why can’t God touch us to reach out to those that we have never met?

Because seeds get scattered every day.  Seeds of love get placed around us…and often we don’t ever see them. Often…we can never even imagine or explain how flowers grow where previously….all seemed barren.

I look out at my field.  At the daisies and other volunteer flowers lining my walkway.  Knowing I didn’t plant them.  I did nothing to deserve them.  I never grew, or earned, or watered, or cared for them….

Yet, they are there anyway.

And GRACE has never had such meaning….until recently.

Grace seen all around in the face of a little miracle…only He could save so mercifully.

And to think that He is doing something.  Something I didn’t know or can’t quite see yet fully…

But it’s huge.  He is huge.  His love is huge….And even I don’t need to understand or explain it…

All we need is to open our eyes.  See the flowers of His grace…..of His goodness.  His seeds of mercy all around us.  

And in doing so, humble ourselves with thanks….

Rejoicing in the beauty of His goodness.

Because if we stop and really inspect our lives.  We will find.  Sometimes flowers grow….Where we least expect them.  

(Linking with Proverbs 31)